LOUISVILLE, Ky. Tricia Petrucci hasn't quite reached the point where she regrets her vote for President Donald Trump. It would be understandable if she did, because Trump and her senator, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are trying to curb the...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders urged Democrats to reach out to President Donald Trump's supporters to promote a progressive agenda that includes guaranteed health care for all Americans as part of a strategy to rebuild the party.
Sanders told a boisterous...

Vice President Mike Pence was in full charm mode Saturday when he touched down here for a visit to try to sell the Republican health-care plan in a state that has a complex relationship with former president Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Just a day...

Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear took a populist tenor in Democrats' formal response to President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday, accusing him of planning to "rip affordable health insurance" from Americans and being "Wall Street's...

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battled for a single delegate Thursday in Kentucky, but a review of primary election results didn't change the outcome of the May 17 primary.
The review, held at the request of the...

Federal investigators found significant cybersecurity weaknesses in the health insurance websites of California, Kentucky and Vermont that could enable hackers to get their hands on sensitive personal information about hundreds of thousands of people, The...

Slate may have declared 2014 "the year of outrage," but if you thought online discourse would mellow from that point - well, you were wildly mistaken.
Scarcely a month went by in 2015 without the christening of some new "most hated" person: whether...

Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin ordered the state to prepare new marriage licenses that do not include the names of county clerks in an attempt to protect the religious beliefs of clerk Kim Davis and other local elected officials.
The executive order...

The outgoing Democratic governor of Kentucky has signed an executive order to restore the right to vote and hold public office to thousands of non-violent felons who've served out their sentences.
Gov. Steve Beshear signed the order Tuesday. He leaves...

Amid the coal fields of eastern Kentucky, a small clinic that is part of the Big Sandy Health Care network furnishes daily proof of this state's full embrace of the Affordable Care Act.
It was here that Mindy Fleming handed a wad of tissues to Tiffany...

Republicans stole a key governor's seat in a hotly contested race in Kentucky on Tuesday, installing an outsider businessman who has drawn comparisons with Donald Trump as the state's next chief executive.
Meanwhile, neighboring Ohio voted against...

A county clerk from Kentucky jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and secretly recorded videos that reignited the debate over abortion dominated national politics this summer. But in Kentucky, home to Rowan County Clerk Kim...

Lawyers for Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis say the altered marriage licenses her office issued to same-sex couples are valid because they have been recognized by Kentucky's highest elected officials.
Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses after a U.S....

WASHINGTON_With the tumultuous race for the White House and the Senate majority up for grabs, races for governor have been barely a sideshow this election cycle.tmpplchld But the politically ambitious men and women who are seeking a high statewide...

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear's lawyers are using the words "absurd," ''forlorn" and "obtuse" to describe the legal arguments a county clerk has used to avoid issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, who spent five days...

Defiant Kentucky clerk Kim Davis stood on a stage in a Washington, D.C., hotel Friday night and spread her arms triumphantly. "I am only one, but we are many," she exclaimed to the crowd, and thanked God for the courage to continue her crusade against gay...

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a longtime Democrat, says she is switching to the Republican Party because she feels abandoned by Democrats in her crusade against same-sex marriage. Davis made the announcement while in Washington, D.C., to attend the Family...